Monday, September 24, 2007

SARAJEVO, Bosnia (September 24,2007) – At the Bosnian state border crossing in Izacic the post mortem remains of four Bosnian citizens were transferred to Bosnia from Croatia. The bodies of the genocide victims were found in a mass grave at the Hrvatska Kostajnica area (Croatia), the head of the Bosnian Commission for Missing Persons,Amor Masovic said.

The bodies found are the remains of four Bosnian citizens from the northern Bosnian city of Prijedor who were murdered by the genocidal Serbian aggressor in July of 1992 in the Carkovo area.

Their identity was confirmed by the DNA method. The bodies identified are: the Behic family members: Izet (the son of Munib) (1966), Redzep, (the son of Mustafa), (1956),Fikret Behlic (the son of Esad) (1963), and Esad Kaltak (the son of Islam) (1947).

Masovic said that the bodies were exhumed in 1998. However, the Croatian authorities had thought that they belonged to the Croatian citizens for whom they could have found no DNA match.

The genocide victims were finally identified within a joint program initiated by the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) and the Croatian government.